---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sunset Nurse-physician Advisory Task Force"
description: "The act continues the nurse-physician advisory task force for Colorado health care (NPATCH) for 7 years, until September 1, 2027. Additionally, the act specifies that 3 of the NPATCH members must be licensed physicians recommended by and representing a statewide physicians' organization that represents multi-specialty physicians and whose membership includes at least one-third of the doctors of medicine and osteopathy licensed in the state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1209"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1209 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joann Ginal", "Kyle Mullica", "Lisa Cutter"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-30T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b02adc92-8f01-41e9-8b0e-5f4561107453"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1209"
source_hash: "f5ef7c76cf0237ea48c2468b022d2337baf991da9ba1185f045f3e091d7d3a1b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 20-1209 (2020A) — Sunset Nurse-physician Advisory Task Force

The act continues the nurse-physician advisory task force for Colorado health care (NPATCH) for 7 years, until September 1, 2027. Additionally, the act specifies that 3 of the NPATCH members must be licensed physicians recommended by and representing a statewide physicians' organization that represents multi-specialty physicians and whose membership includes at least one-third of the doctors of medicine and osteopathy licensed in the state.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_hb1209_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/28/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1209_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/29/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1209_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/30/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1209_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/18/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1209pub_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1209shhs_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/02/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1209_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (06/05/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1209_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (06/04/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1209_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/30/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1209_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **46–15** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **48–13** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **44–17** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **30–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-06-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2020-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b02adc92-8f01-41e9-8b0e-5f4561107453`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).